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Most absurdly in the program, the Aidan Quinn character is portrayed as a courageous priest challenging a conservative church hierarchy. In real life, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut has a liberal bishop who is cracking down on dissenting conservative priests. The national Episcopal hierarchy is overwhelmingly liberal, and orthodox Episcopalians are increasingly looking to overseas Anglican primates for leadership and protection. (Quote by - Mark Tooley)


A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self- preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)


Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)


Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid. (Quote by - Ned Johnson)


Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. (Quote by - George Byron)


It was absurdly hilarious. (Quote by - Al Franken)


The biggest shortcoming is that the Census Bureau fails to account for some $400 billion in welfare and Social Security and Medicare benefits that flow to the bottom quarter of the population. So the income count itself is almost absurdly inaccurate and incomplete. (Quote by - Robert Rector)


Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and that they would get into trouble. (Quote by - Maltby, W. Russell)


There's an absurdly picky ski patrol this year. To us this is epic: If you have a job you don't like, you quit. (Quote by - Mac Smith)


People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately(Quote by - Oscar Wilde)


It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to ‘rid the world of evil-doers. (Quote by - Arundhati Roy)


I don't know how much Apple pays for that IBM chip, but you can bet it's absurdly low. Apple has this crazy idea that it shouldn't have to pay as much as everyone else. And whatever it's paying for the IBM chip, I'm sure it's paying more for the Intel chip. (Quote by - Nathan Brookwood)


First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy. (Quote by - Fitzhugh Dodson)


The only way we can do what we do is to be absurdly optimistic. (Quote by - Christine Vachon)


Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)



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